Author: Boris Sidis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Philistine and Genius
Author: Boris Sidis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Philistine and Genius
Author: Boris Sidis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Genius
Author: James Gleick
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453210431
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 859
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller: This life story of the quirky physicist is “a thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of the century” (The New York Review of Books). Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic—a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics earned him a place at Los Alamos working on the Manhattan Project under J. Robert Oppenheimer, where the giddy young man held his own among the nation’s greatest minds. There, Feynman turned theory into practice, culminating in the Trinity test, on July 16, 1945, when the Atomic Age was born. He was only twenty-seven. And he was just getting started. In this sweeping biography, James Gleick captures the forceful personality of a great man, integrating Feynman’s work and life in a way that is accessible to laymen and fascinating for the scientists who follow in his footsteps.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453210431
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 859
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller: This life story of the quirky physicist is “a thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of the century” (The New York Review of Books). Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic—a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics earned him a place at Los Alamos working on the Manhattan Project under J. Robert Oppenheimer, where the giddy young man held his own among the nation’s greatest minds. There, Feynman turned theory into practice, culminating in the Trinity test, on July 16, 1945, when the Atomic Age was born. He was only twenty-seven. And he was just getting started. In this sweeping biography, James Gleick captures the forceful personality of a great man, integrating Feynman’s work and life in a way that is accessible to laymen and fascinating for the scientists who follow in his footsteps.
The School of Genius
Author: Anthony Storr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780233980102
Category : Adjustment (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780233980102
Category : Adjustment (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Animate and the Inanimate
Author: William James Sidis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black holes (Astronomy)
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black holes (Astronomy)
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A Very Stable Genius
Author: Philip Rucker
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 198487750X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The instant #1 bestseller. “This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic tenure in office to date." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, both Pulitzer Prize winners, provide the definitive insider narrative of Donald Trump’s presidency “I alone can fix it.” So proclaimed Donald J. Trump on July 21, 2016, accepting the Republican presidential nomination and promising to restore what he described as a fallen nation. Yet as he undertook the actual work of the commander in chief, it became nearly impossible to see beyond the daily chaos of scandal, investigation, and constant bluster. In fact, there were patterns to his behavior and that of his associates. The universal value of the Trump administration was loyalty—not to the country, but to the president himself—and Trump’s North Star was always the perpetuation of his own power. With deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington, D.C., Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker reveal the forty-fifth president up close. Here, for the first time, certain officials who felt honor-bound not to divulge what they witnessed in positions of trust tell the truth for the benefit of history. A peerless and gripping narrative, A Very Stable Genius not only reveals President Trump at his most unvarnished but shows how he tested the strength of America’s democracy and its common heart as a nation.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 198487750X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The instant #1 bestseller. “This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic tenure in office to date." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, both Pulitzer Prize winners, provide the definitive insider narrative of Donald Trump’s presidency “I alone can fix it.” So proclaimed Donald J. Trump on July 21, 2016, accepting the Republican presidential nomination and promising to restore what he described as a fallen nation. Yet as he undertook the actual work of the commander in chief, it became nearly impossible to see beyond the daily chaos of scandal, investigation, and constant bluster. In fact, there were patterns to his behavior and that of his associates. The universal value of the Trump administration was loyalty—not to the country, but to the president himself—and Trump’s North Star was always the perpetuation of his own power. With deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington, D.C., Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker reveal the forty-fifth president up close. Here, for the first time, certain officials who felt honor-bound not to divulge what they witnessed in positions of trust tell the truth for the benefit of history. A peerless and gripping narrative, A Very Stable Genius not only reveals President Trump at his most unvarnished but shows how he tested the strength of America’s democracy and its common heart as a nation.
Grand Pursuit
Author: Sylvia Nasar
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684872994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
An instant "New York Times" bestseller, from the author of "A Beautiful Mind": a sweeping history of the invention of modern economics that takes readers from Dickens' London to modern Calcutta.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684872994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
An instant "New York Times" bestseller, from the author of "A Beautiful Mind": a sweeping history of the invention of modern economics that takes readers from Dickens' London to modern Calcutta.
The Philistine Controversy
Author: Dave Beech
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859848425
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Dave Beech and John Roberts develop what they call a 'counter-intuitive' notion of the philistine, with insights on cultural division and exclusion.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859848425
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Dave Beech and John Roberts develop what they call a 'counter-intuitive' notion of the philistine, with insights on cultural division and exclusion.
The Complete Works of Boris Sidis
Author: Boris Sidis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781730979156
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Hailed as a genius by William James, Boris Sidis at once one of the most pivotal, controversial, substantial, and forgotten thinkers of the twentieth century. As a result of his clashes with Freudian psychoanalysis, mainstream methods of education, and Behaviorism, Boris's impressive corpus was ignored until it fell into obscurity. The first volume of The Complete Boris Sidis covers his work in hypnosis, consciousness, nervous ailments, and pedagogy.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781730979156
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Hailed as a genius by William James, Boris Sidis at once one of the most pivotal, controversial, substantial, and forgotten thinkers of the twentieth century. As a result of his clashes with Freudian psychoanalysis, mainstream methods of education, and Behaviorism, Boris's impressive corpus was ignored until it fell into obscurity. The first volume of The Complete Boris Sidis covers his work in hypnosis, consciousness, nervous ailments, and pedagogy.
Off the Charts
Author: Ann Hulbert
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101971320
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Ann Hulbert’s in-depth exploration of the lives of sixteen extraordinary children over the course of the past century casts new light on America’s current obsession with early achievement. The figures she profiles include math genius Norbert Wiener, founder of cybernetics; two girls whose fiction and poetry stirred debate in the 1920s; the movie superstar Shirley Temple; the African-American pianist and composer Philippa Schuyler; the chess champion Bobby Fischer; computer pioneers and “prodigious savants” with autism; and musical prodigies, present and past. Hulbert probes the changing roles of parents and teachers as well as of psychologists and a curious press. Above all, she delves into the feelings of the prodigies themselves, whose stories so intriguingly raise hopes about untapped human potential and questions about how best to nurture it.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101971320
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Ann Hulbert’s in-depth exploration of the lives of sixteen extraordinary children over the course of the past century casts new light on America’s current obsession with early achievement. The figures she profiles include math genius Norbert Wiener, founder of cybernetics; two girls whose fiction and poetry stirred debate in the 1920s; the movie superstar Shirley Temple; the African-American pianist and composer Philippa Schuyler; the chess champion Bobby Fischer; computer pioneers and “prodigious savants” with autism; and musical prodigies, present and past. Hulbert probes the changing roles of parents and teachers as well as of psychologists and a curious press. Above all, she delves into the feelings of the prodigies themselves, whose stories so intriguingly raise hopes about untapped human potential and questions about how best to nurture it.